Lay

Lay

Nonprofessional, such as a lay witness who is not a recognized expert in the area that is the subject of the person's testimony. That which relates to persons or entities not clerical or ecclesiastical; a person not in ecclesiastical orders. To present theformal declarations by the parties of their respective claims and defenses in pleadings. A share of the profits of a fishing orWhalingvoyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages.

LAY, English law. That which relates to persons or things not
ecclesiastical. In the United States the people are not, by law, divided, as
in England, into ecclesiastical and lay. The law makes no distinction
between them.

TO LAY, pleading. To state or to allege. The place from whence a jury are to
be summoned, is called the venue, and the allegation in the declaration, of
the place where the jury is to be summoned, is in technical language, said
to lay the venue. 3 Steph. Com. 574; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2826.

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